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Christopher Opyr

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Christopher Opyr is the pen name of Christopher Hutton, the award-winning author of the horror novella, Calling Mr. Nelson Pugh. He is a former story producer and voice-over writer for television, now writing prose with a focus on horror and science-fiction.

Christopher was raised in Richlands and Jacksonville, North Carolina, where he spent most of his formative years, before moving to Los Angeles, California to study screenwriting. After 13 years in LA, he returned to his home state. He currently lives in North Carolina with his wife, daughter, and a menagerie of animals: four cats, a dog, and multiple guinea pigs.

While Calling Mr. Nelson Pugh is his only publication, he is currently working on his first full-length horror novel, Radio-Wa
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Christopher Opyr I'm terrible at any form of advance reading list. I tend to read by the whim of the moment, and with recent publication work, my reading time has been…moreI'm terrible at any form of advance reading list. I tend to read by the whim of the moment, and with recent publication work, my reading time has been drastically reduced. So far I've only read Victor LaValle's amazing The Ballad of Black Tom. However I am currently reading Little Heaven by Nick Cutter, and Miramont's Ghost by Elizabeth Hall.

If I am lucky enough to carve out the time for those two, then I will likely jump to some Joe Hill, Harlan Coben, Stephen King, or John Ajvide Lindqvist. Or better yet, a horror author that I have not yet read. TBD.(less)
Christopher Opyr Calling Mr. Nelson Pugh was a natural fit for me. When I first started writing the novella, I was traveling frequently for work. At night, when I'd fi…moreCalling Mr. Nelson Pugh was a natural fit for me. When I first started writing the novella, I was traveling frequently for work. At night, when I'd finish up working conferences, I'd sit down to work on my writing and my anxiety would be at peak levels post work-day. From there a combination of my travel, my anxiety, and my penchant for horror was inevitable.

As I began to ideate on concepts that took advantage of this mix, I thought long and hard on what I find to be most terrifying in books and movies, and realized that the most frightening thing we can experience is that which we cannot see, or in other words, the experience that allows our imaginations to run wild. We can always imagine something more frightening than the reality right in front of us.

With that in mind, I set about to craft a horror story around a protagonist that could not see, but only imagine, the antagonist. Not being confronted directly by the villain, the threat had to be against family.

From there, Calling Mr. Nelson Pugh sprung forth (with years of work and rewrites).(less)
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… and the website finally works? Okay, so, it has been a little over six months since I published Calling Mr. Nelson Pugh. In that time, I’ve managed to get some reviews (which have happily been overwhelmingly positive), but I have not had a properly functioning site. Well, now that that is hopefully resolved. I […]
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“All these bad experiences that we go through, they don't just disappear. We carry them our whole life trying to forget, escaping in habits, addictions, hate, toxic relationships. But what we don't know is that by doing so we let them stay alive. We water them like withered flowers and we hang onto them to justify our mistakes and failures.”
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